The deputy CM was meeting farmers in flood-hit Marathwada. Rebuking a farmer who had lost his crop, Pawar said, 'Are we here to play marbles? I have been working since 6 am'.
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra and Telangana announced 9 of the 19 waivers in two decades, unlike Bihar and West Bengal, the two less prosperous states.
Despite the centrality of agriculture in India, there is no standard measure of farmers’ distress. The most commonly cited measure is the number of suicides.
Farmer leader Ajit Navale says state govt decision is a "betrayal", most farmers will not get the benefit as they have loan arrears of more than Rs 2 lakh.
The farmers started their march from Noida Saturday morning after talks between the Bharatiya Kisan Sangathan and government representatives failed to materialise.
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das highlighted that waiver of farm loans by state goverments affect credit culture and future credit behaviour of the borrowers.
On his second trip to Uttar Pradesh this month, Modi accuses the JD(S)-Congress Karnataka government of not delivering on its farm loan waiver promises.
‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.
December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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